AOL outages and service status in Sugar Land, Texas

Problems in the last 24 hours in Sugar Land, Texas

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Sugar Land, Texas and surrounding areas. An outage is declared when the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line.

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AOL Issues Reports

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  George Cheng (@MrGeorgeCheng) reported 2 minutes ago

  AOL had 30M users, and the internet locked down. Then the open web ate it. Anthropic and OpenAI are playing AOL right now. The Fable 5 rug pull just showed every enterprise exactly what it looks like to depend on closed AI. The off switch exists. Someone else holds it. Llama, Mistral, Qwen - they're not "almost as good" anymore. For most enterprise workloads, they're good enough. And they run on your own hardware. Apple MLX + NVIDIA RTX Spark laptops + rapidly improving open weights = the mainframe-to-PC transition, happening in real time. Open-source AI will do to Frontier Labs what the open internet did to AOL. History doesn't always repeat itself, but it certainly rhymes. The only question is how long you keep building on someone else's infrastructure before you start owning yours.

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  🔻agitprop + absurdity🔻 (@agtprpnabsrdty) reported 3 minutes ago

  Different decade, same math: half the S&P 500 is priced at levels that a dot-com CEO called proof of investor insanity while watching his company crater 90%. The rotation at the top: In early 2000, the ten most valuable S&P 500 companies read like a monument to permanent dominance: Microsoft, General Electric, Cisco, Walmart, ExxonMobil, Intel, Lucent, IBM, Citigroup, AOL. A generation later, only Microsoft remains. GE was carved into three separate companies. Lucent was absorbed by Nokia. AOL became the cautionary tale attached to the worst merger in corporate history. Cisco and Intel spent 25 years climbing back to their dot-com peaks. Citigroup, IBM, Walmart, and ExxonMobil still exist, but none crack the top ten. The new top ten is Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and the AI infrastructure complex. Investors in 2000 were also certain they were buying the future's permanent giants. The data says most of today's winners won't be in the top ten a generation from now either, and there is no mechanism by which you find out which ones survive in advance. The valuation problem: In 2002, after Sun Microsystems collapsed 90%, CEO Scott McNealy explained to investors exactly what a 10x sales multiple actually demands: 100% of revenues paid as dividends for ten consecutive years, with zero costs, zero R&D, zero taxes, and zero employees. He was describing the math of the price investors had paid for his stock as a form of collective psychosis. Today, 51% of the S&P 500 by market cap trades above 10x sales. Half the index. The AI narrative is functioning as the dot-com narrative functioned: a story compelling enough to make the math feel optional. The math has never been optional.

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  Andrew Long, MD, ESQ (@AverageSizeAndy) reported 3 minutes ago

  @Joshua_Graham50 @1982VintageNut The email this account uses is an AOL email. Sit down child.

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  Mike Resists (@MikeResists1969) reported 8 minutes ago

  @ratcli39423 @jennmint Since I’ve been on social media, going back to AOL days, I’ve witnessed how horrible most guys are. At least online.

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  Jokerukky (@JauntyyGurl) reported 17 minutes ago

  @Jailyn2025 What has being a Nigerian got to do with your ability to be sensible…has it occurred to you that he said it to save her ***?has it occurred to you that he eventually voted her *** out?this same aol never pulled him for a chat cause she knew she had no chance !**** movie night 📌

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  ginger spice (@legallyging) reported 18 minutes ago

  @Boblhead truly!! was at a restaurant today and someone's ringtone was the AOL dial-up tone. ended up going down a rabbithole bc of that

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  Lynnie (@TweetThisBabe) reported 18 minutes ago

  @AOL What a shame you now have ruined the email by inputting ADS. How ridiculous was this and unfair to everyone? We do not want ads in our email please. How about bringing back your chat rooms which used to be so fun and not like on other apps that are just so bad? Would you please consider that? And get rid of the ADS in email please. Thanks!

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  🐺Molly O'Kami🐺 (@MollyOKami) reported 19 minutes ago

  @Shadow87Claw 19. Only never had an AOL address. Hotmail is my oldest. Technically 18. My parents & childhood friend had waterbeds, not me. Never wanted one. Hurts my back & I felt like drowning.

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  SpaceDonkey (@SirDonkeyNuts69) reported 19 minutes ago

  @Wipps @PaulCharchian Yup data center central, they tore down AOL and put in a data center

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  Exencial Research Partners (@exencial_RP) reported 20 minutes ago

  OpenAI Is Forecasting Something That Has Never Happened in 75 Years of Market History Morgan Stanley's Mauboussin studied every 5-year sales growth run for US public companies since 1950. Nearly 19,300 firm-period observations. Fastest ever: AOL at 103% CAGR, and even that was a merger artifact with Time Warner. OpenAI's projection: $13.1bn (2025) → $284bn (2030). An 85% CAGR from a base no company that size has ever compounded from. The earlier $184bn-by-2029 forecast implied 118%. The mean 5-year nominal CAGR in the data: 6.9%, with 11.1% standard deviation. OpenAI's forecast sits 9 to 10 standard deviations out. Mauboussin's caveat is fair, base rates are dynamic and the past doesn't make it impossible. But it would be the single greatest growth achievement in the history of public markets. Price it accordingly. Base Rates of Nominal and Real 5-Year Sales Growth for Firms With $2-5 Billion in Sales, 1950-2025